El futuro epistémico y la variación: gramaticalización y expresión de la futuridad desde 1600
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Título: | El futuro epistémico y la variación: gramaticalización y expresión de la futuridad desde 1600 |
Autor/a: | Aaron, Jessi Elana |
Data: | 2008 |
Editor: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico |
Cita bibliográfica: | AARON, Jessi Elana: «El futuro epistémico y la variación: gramaticalización y expresión de la futuridad desde 1600», Moenia. Revista lucense de lingüística e literatura. ISSN 1137-2346, vol. 13 (2007), pp. 253-274 |
Resumo: | Jessi Elana AARON: Epistemic Future and Variation: Grammaticization and the expression of futurity since 1600. In Modern Spanish, there are two constructions that are most commonly associated with future meaning, the Synthetic Future (SF) (e.g. cantaré), and the Periphrastic Future (PF) (e.g. voy a cantar). However, future temporal reference in Spanish has undergone a dramatic shift, in which the territory of the SF has been slowly encroached upon by the PF. Drawing upon quantitative evidence from a 935,000-word corpus of Iberian Spanish, this paper examines this diachronic process from a variationist perspective. The competition between these constructions began to gain momentum in the 17th century, with the PF reaching 4% relative frequency. This figure is dwarfed by the relative frequency of 66% PF in the 20th-century in spoken data (27% in written). Based on four independent multivariate analyses of 3,274 occurrences of PF and SF, it is shown that the contextual constraints on SF-PF variation, such as verb class, temporal adverbials, and sentence type, have remained relatively stable even in the face of drastic changes in frequency. It is also shown that some changes in rates and variation patterns in future temporal expression are linked to a further grammaticization of the SF in the 20th century, with epistemic uses on the rise, constituting 24% of SF use in 20th-century spoken Iberian Spanish. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/6072 |
ISSN: | 1137-2346 |